Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Defeating a lion

Right now i'm sitting at one of my favorite spots in Santa Barbara. Those of you from sb know where I am and this is a place I often come to think and try and define my life.

Today I'm here because my dad just shared something with me that really hit home in many areas of my life. We were at breakfast and I was telling my parents some things about my life and he told me a story about how someone could go about defeating a lion. He said all you need is a chair and a whip...because when you hold the chair up and point it towards the lion the lion can't focus on what's attacking it because it sees the four legs of the chair and it gets parallyzed. The lion can't focus and can then be defeated.

Many of you have heard my " Get FREE" talk and you know that the first thing we must do in order to be successful in anything is to FOCUS our attention, our energy, and our emotions and not become distracted and parallyzed by all the possible opportunities.

What are you going to focus on today? ...and what are you going to give to give up in order to do that?

Great comments David. Another great comment in the same vain that I like to share is, "What would you do differently today if you knew you couldn't fail?" We are so afraid to fail, that we're afraid to give up what is comfortable, even if it isn't necessarily what we want, or what is good for us. Thanks for the reminder.

It's funny you write about this today because I was just telling a friend the way I consistently defeat the lion is to not get in the cage with him. It works every time! When I ask God to keep me from evil... I'm not asking him to give me a powerful whip or a 4 legged chair, I'm asking him to give me the good sense to always remember it's not worth any of my energy to get into the cage (or whatever evil I'm presented with).